by

Brian Berry, LTC, CAP

Commander,

Sandy Springs

Cadet SquadronDecember 2008

Excellence in All CAP’s Missions

• Cadet Program

• Aerospace Education

• Emergency Services

Cadet Program

• SSCS is a CADET Squadron• All Our Activities Involve Cadets

• Our Cadets’ Achievements are Our Unit’s Achievements

• Our Cadets Have Achieved A Lot!

• Cadet Achievements•Academy Cadets, Competitive Wins, and Accolades

•Encampments and Summer Special Activities

•Cadet Program Achievements

Summer Special Activities

National Emergency Services Academy(Camp Atterbury, IN, 27 JUL - 2 AUG 08)

• Lousine Agasarkisian• Colin Istvan• Joseph Lawler• Beau Vegter

SENIOR STAFF• 1Lt Amy Vegter

Summer Special Activities

Air Force Space Command Familiarization Course (Patrick AFB, FL)

• Timothy Fisher

Advanced Technologies Academy(Peterson AFB, CO)

• Christine Caldwell

Summer EncampmentsAlabama/Mississippi Wing Encampment

(Gulfport Air National Guard Base, MS, 14-20 JUN 08)

• Melissa Ogden

Summer Encampments

Georgia Wing Encampment(Ft. Benning, GA, 22-28 JUN 08)

STAFF

• Beau Vegter (Training Officer)

• Sakorey Srongprapa (First Sgt)

• Christine Caldwell (First Sgt)

• Joey Lawler (Flight Sgt)

• Lousine Agasarkisian (Public Affairs)

Summer EncampmentsGeorgia Wing Encampment(Ft. Benning, GA, 22-28 JUN 08)

• David DeMeritt

• Joel DeMeritt

• James Fisher (2nd Encampment)

• Kento Gamblin

• Julian Lidback (2nd Encampment)

• Weston Lord

Southeast Region Encampment(Stark, FL, 28 DEC 07 – 5 JAN 08)

• Rebecca Gallagher

• Megan Gallagher

Georgia Wing Glider Encampment(Rome, GA – JUL 08)

• Tom McArthur (Staff)

Color Guard

GAWG’s Finest!

• Georgia Wing Competition (8 MAR 08)• First Place!

• Won 5 of the 7 events!• Christine Caldwell - Female Fleet Foot Award• Sakorey Srongprapa - “Knowledge of Excellence” Award

• Southeast Region Competition ( Patrick AFB, FL)• Overall Third Place

• 2nd Place in Standard Drill• 2nd Place in Written Test• 3rd Place in 5 other Areas

Color Guard“Bud” Aiken’s Funeral (Canton’s Georgia National Cemetery, 27 MAR 08)

• SSCS’s Founding Father

Cadet Achievements

OUTSTANDING

Cadets!

Erin Caldwell• US Naval Academy

Anqi Zhao• US Coast Guard Academy

Brian Rasmussen2007 GAWG Cadet of the Year

Nathan McCaskey• US Air Force Academy Christopher Troke

• US Naval Academy

Other Activities

International Air Cadet Exchange– Great Britain

– Australia

• Capt Megan Gallagher• Assistant GAWG Director of Cadets• Master Rating in Logistics and Cadet Programs• Paul Garber Senior Program Award• Commissioned as USAF 2nd Lieutenant

• MAJ Mike Reed• Scott Crossfield Aerospace Master Rating

• 1Lt David Warford• Earned CAP Credit for US Army Training• Awarded “Certificate of Proficiency”

• Senior Training• Corporate Learning Course – Bill Meyer• Yeager Aerospace Award – Amy Vegter• Incident Command System ICS-300 Course – Brian Berry

Senior Member Achievements

Senior Member Achievements

OUTSTANDING

SENIORS!

2 National Balsem Awards for

Outstanding Media

Best Senior Members

in the Wing!

Aerospace EducationInternal (Our Folks)

• Flight Orientation Flights

• 12 Powered O’Flights! (3 Dates)

• No Glider Orientation Flights

• Ron Bradford Memorial Academic Bowl Award

(at Georgia Wing Conference, MAR 08)

Aerospace Education

Internal (Our Folks)

• Model Rocketry

• SSCS Rocket Night (June)

• GAWG Rocket Course Weekend (June)

Animated Image

Aerospace EducationExternal (The Public)

• Wings Across Marietta Airshow

(Dobbins ARB, 17-19 OCT 08)

Emergency ServicesA Historical Focus for Our Squadron

• ES Training: 7 Activities

• Group 2 SAREX (9 FEB)

• (Death of the Ambulance)

• FROSTBITE 08 Exercise (22-24 FEB)

• Resaca and Tunnel Hill Reenactment FTXs

(MAY and SEP)

•Squadron FTXs (MAR, JUN, NOV)

Emergency Services

Actual Air Force Assigned Missions – 4 Callouts

• ELT (Smyrna – 16 Mar) – NoSig

• ELT Msn (Tennga - 19-20 MAR) – Find

• ELT (Cobb Co. – 4 MAY) – Find

• ELT ‘Batman’ Mission (Whitesburg– OCT) – Find

• ELT Alert (NE of KATL - 27 OCT 08) – Stood Down

Emergency Services

Actual Air Force Assigned Missions

• 100% Mission Success Rate (When Called Out)!

• 3 FINDs (1 NO SIGs, 1 Stand-Down after Alert)

• Missions We Prepared for But Didn’t Fully Participate In:• 4 JAN – Missing Person (Merideth Emerson) – Alerted, Not Called

Out

• 25 JAN – ELT (Hartsfield) – Pre-Alert, Stood Down

• 28 FEB – ELT (Marietta) – Pre-Alert, Stood Down

• 21 MAR – ELT (Atlanta) – Pre-Alert, Stood Down

• 2 MAY – Missing A/C (N. GA) – Alerted but A/C Found Safe

• 23 JUN – ELT (Cobb Co.) - Pre-Alert, Stood Down

• 18-23 AUG – Hurricane Support – Alerted, but Not Called Out

• 5 OCT – ELT (Extreme N. GA) - Pre-Alert, Stood Down

• 9 DEC – ELT (Calhoun) - Pre-Alert, Stood Down

Emergency ServicesGround Team Ratings: Still Number 1 in the Wing!

• Ground Team Member Level 3:

• 22 (Peachtree City, the next highest unit, has 15)

• 17% of GAWG’s Capability!

• Ground Team Member Level 2:

• 13 (Rome has 8)

• 17% of GAWG’s Capability!

• Ground Team Member Level 1:

• 7 (Bartow Etowah has 4)

• 19% of GAWG’s Capability!

• Ground Team Leader:

• 9 (Wing HQ has 6)

• 22% of GAWG’s Capability!

Sandy Springs – A Proud History

And A Bright Future

In Memory of

C.R. “Bud” Aiken

‘Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,

Put out my hand and touched the face of God’John Gillespie Magee, Jr.